With a chemical alarm, you’re going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFAny soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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Good generalship is a realization that you’ve got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.
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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.
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It’s the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody’s got to do it. And if you don’t, who will?
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I don’t consider myself dovish and I certainly don’t consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlishthat is wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.
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I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.
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I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battle lines, as they did in World War I and World War II or, for that matter, as they would have if NATO had faced the Warsaw Pact on the field of battle.
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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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It is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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